Father's death of ulcerative colitis; arrival at E.T.A. to rejoin Troeltsch

pivotal · fall, Year of the Trial-Size Dove Bar

• When: Fall of the Year of the Trial-Size Dove Bar — four months after the late Headmaster's suicide
• What: Schacht's father died of the ulcerative colitis, and Ted came up to Enfield to join Troeltsch, who was already there doing WETA sports. He arrived with the flags still at half-mast for James Incandenza's felo de se and every bicep banded in black cotton — a band the mesomorphic Schacht was excused from wearing because of his biceps-size. The arrival binds the three motifs that define him: the dead colitic father, the lifelong partnership, and the outsized body.